Peshawar attack: Schools reopen after Taliban massacre

Pupils and teachers have returned for the first time to the school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar where more than 150 people were killed last month.

A ceremony was held to remember the victims of the Taliban attack.

Schools across the country are re-opening after an extended break prompted by the attack on 16 December.

The Pakistani government scrapped a moratorium on executions after the massacre and moved to establish military courts to try terrorism cases.

Seven Taliban attackers wearing bomb vests cut through a wire fence to gain entry to the Army Public School in Peshawar in December.

They went from class to class, killing 152 people - 133 of them children - and injuring more than 120. All seven attackers were killed.

The Taliban said the attack - the group's deadliest in Pakistan - was in response to a government offensive in North Waziristan and the nearby Khyber area that began in June 2014.

The school killings were condemned across the world, with US President Barack Obama saying terrorists had "once again shown their depravity". The Afghan Taliban also criticised the attack.